LandoCalrisian wrote...
I just finished my second playthrough - first time around I couldn't figure out why Joker was fleeing from the beam/laser/cloud - I thought it was the same beam that was bouncing around the Mass Effect Relays and destroying them, but that isn't the case, as now seems obvoius to me.
In all of the endings there's a red/pink energy field that washes over Earth and the universe, either destroying the reapers, putting them under Shepherd's control or synthesizing organic and synthetic life. That's what Joker is running from, not the Relay Destruction Beam or whatever bounces between the relays.
The glowy kid on the Citadel mentions that Shepherd will destroy/control/synthesize synthetic life, "including the geth" and the reapers, but since EDI has become a living synthetic (as revealed in her final chat with Shepherd), she would of course also affected. Joker is trying to outrun the cloud to save his lover. He is fully aware that she has similarities to the Reapers and the Geth, and seeing the red cloud that wiped them out approaching would of course cause Joker to turn and try to escape it.
EDI has a triple nature as both ship and individual robot and software in the span of ME3, remember, so we can consider both the EVA body, the ship and her code itself as "Synthetic Life".
Therefore, in the Destroy ending, the ship is sufficiently screwed by her annhilation that it crashes and she's nowhere to be seen afterwards.
In the Control ending, she has lost all free will and become a slave to Shepherd and therefore wouldn't functionally exist either since her "life/consciousness/free will" would no longer be there to control her body/ship/software code. Presumably this also causes the Normandy to malfunction/crash since she was controlling pretty much all ship's systems.
In the synthesis ending, she survives and her and Joker are products of synthesis - maybe he's become part of the ship and the ship (EDI) has become part of him? Or in any case he and EDI are each synthesized with the opposite form of life. Presumeably, this process would cause the ship to malfunction, at least temporarily and that's why they land and/or crash on the planet - note we don't actually see the Normandy crash land, just that it's heavily damaged, which may also have occured due to instability/malfunction during the synthesis process as well as the preceding battle.
Anyways, I'm not sure if I'm the only one who misinterpreted the ending, but maybe this helps clear things up for a few people. Since the other ships in the fleet are all controlled by VI's instead of synthetic life forms, we can presume they all would have been fine.
I'm assuming that the Extended cut will clarify this a bit by showing the direct effects of Shepherd's choice on not only the Reapers but also the Geth and maybe also a shot of EDI's death/synthesis.
In terms of crewmembers being with Joker, I assume the first thing Joker would do when the Citadel's arms opened would be to shoot down to earth and pick up as many surviving crewmembers as he could find - he's that kind of guy. Shepherd was up on the Citadel for who knows how long, so this is somewhat plausible. The extended cut will in all likelihood show him picking up the survivors, possibly also letting us know that several of the Normandy's crew dies (Shepherd's final team in all likelihood).
I honestly still don't like the glowy kid ending - I feel like introducing a new character/entity, (despite a fair bit of foreshadowing), after 99.5% of the story is complete is a bit of a cop out/Deus Ex Machina, that I never really appreciate in storytelling. But, at least everything else has a certain logic to it!
The major issue I see with this is that it implies the Normandy/Joker is in direct contact with Shep throughout the ending, and that the crew members on Earth are perfectly okay with saving their own bacon, but not Shep's.
As it stands, the only person who appears to even have any contact with Shep is Hackett, and even that's one-way.
Also, even if Joker was able to convince them all the abandon Shep, there's the other issue of how close the active crew members were to the beam. I honestly don't see Harbinger letting that ship get anywhere near close enough, or be there long enough to pick up survivors.
It's established right from the very beginning that the Reapers can hit ships pretty easily, and considering how slowly it'sd have to be moving, I would guess that the Normandy not only being bigger than the shuttles from the beginning (the ones that the boy is on with all the soldiers), but also being so close would make it a priority target.
At least that's how I see it.
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